The Murder Club

Part of the 'Lullabies of Broadmoor' sequence* which also includes 'Wilderness', 'Venus at Broadmoor' and 'The Demon Box'.

* All four plays can be staged and seen separately.

1922 and murder is in the air. Britain is engaged in a genocidal war in Iraq using poison gas and other weapons of mass destruction and two notorious murderers are meeting for the first time in Broadmoor. They have been put in charge of an evening of entertainment. Welcome to the Murder Club.

Propaganda and reality, fact and fiction, real life and theatre, madness and sanity. The lines blur and shift uneasily in an intense psychological thriller.

'The Murder Club' was the second co-production between the Company and Theatre West. It transferred to London as part of a double bill called 'Lullabies of Broadmoor' featuring the same cast as in Bristol.

The complete text of 'The Murder Club' was published in the summer 2005 issue of 'Plays International' with photos by Ian Wilmot.

Crew

Reviews

"Chris Courtenay's Prince and Andrew Michell's True are played off beautifully against Marc Danbury's excitable prison guard, Mr Coleman, but it is Charlotte Pyke, as the murdered girl, who really steals the show." Rebecca Gilbert, Bristol Evening Post

"Powerfully performed, in Catriona McLaughlin's absorbing and atmospheric production . . The result is a piquant mix of witty Gothic ghoulishness and serious moral questioning" Paul Taylor, The Independent